For a change, we\u00a0thought we’d take the Scouts to the annual Jamboree on The Trail this week. This meant we’d meet on Saturday rather than\u00a0their usual evening meeting.<\/p>\n
Jamboree on the Trail<\/a> is an annual day for the World Scout Movement to hike together. All Scouts, whatever their age and wherever they may be in the world, are invited to participate. Teifi District Scouts were\u00a0walking along the Teifi Valley as a sponsored event for JOTT<\/a> and all groups from the district were invited so we thought we would join them. Plans were hatched and arrangements made. Things kept changing as we had lots of other things on over the weekend and discovered in the run up to it that Morgan had been invited to run in the National Urdd Cross Country. This was being held in Abreryswyth on Saturday afternoon so plans were changed allowing us\u00a0to get back for that as well.<\/p>\n The JOTT walk we were doing was in \u00a0Cilgerran which is a lovely little village just inland from Cardigan. It just so happens to be where friends of ours live too. We planned to visit them on Friday evening, stay with them overnight and then meet the Scouts on Saturday morning. We had encouraged the Scouts to bring their families along and thankfully all of those that were coming were indeed coming with parents so we were going to be able to leave early if necessary. As it turned out, the stormy weather forecast for the weekend meant that the Cross Country was cancelled at the last minute so there was no need to rush back\u00a0after all.<\/p>\n We turned up at Dennis and Sophie’s in the late afternoon having driven down straight after school. We had a nice evening with them, eating, drinking and chatting in front of the fire.\u00a0They put us up for the night and provided us with breakfast before we headed off to meet the Scouts.<\/p>\n The Saturday morning meeting meant that we didn’t have many of the Group turning up. They all seemed to have other things to do or some sort of an excuse. At least those that made excuses did, most of them we simply hadn’t heard from so we did wonder if anyone else would just turn up, but in the end it was just the people we knew about. That meant was only had 6 Scouts (including Morgan) and 6 adults (including ourselves). It’s a shame there weren’t more as this really is the sort of event we should be participating in. The Scouts can earn a badge for doing the Jamboree on The Trail, it takes us to knew places and integrates us with the rest of the groups from the district. At least there was a contingent from Borth, even if it was small and the others there appreciated the fact that we had travelled down from the ‘far north’ of the county.<\/p>\n We met at\u00a0Cilgerran Wildlife Centre and headed off for a walk along the Teifi Valley. There were a couple of points along the walk with activities for the Scouts to do, such as tower building in the woods and fire-lighting.<\/p>\n\n\t\t